Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-01
MIXING ROYAL BABIES.
The Story rof the Woman Who Claims
to ba the Daughter Of Queen Yicto-
RIA Sensational Narrative.
Consort Charged With Substituting
German Baby for the ReRi Princess.
Ch.ea 90 Inter Ocean.


before his marriage with Queen Victoria,
was married morgarat.cally to the
Countess BsUss il Germany. Ia Novem-
Der, 1910, Queen Victoria and the
Countess gave birth to female children
almost g. the sane time.
The Countess, under threat Of OK
posuFe, compelled Prince Albert to OK
change the two infants, a substitution
which was effected through the inter
vention CT the royal nurse. The Queens
child was taken to France in charge Of
Lady Ann Campbell, and vas brought NJ
il her care until her eighth year ST
Poissy, near Paris, g BavariAn servant
named Peter Seidd being their protector
The Queens child rot called Sophia
Adelaide. The Countess child remained
II the royal household Of England, was
brought up as princess, and is now the
wife OF the Crown Prince Of Germany.
In lS4S or there's bouts Sophia Adelaide,
then about eight years cid, was sent to
convent near lIGuiCh, in Bavaria, where
she was educated for few years. She
afterwards was taken to Schleswig- Hol-
stein, where she sud Lady Ann Campbell
lived fer some time IL the house OF
friend and agent OF Prince Albert,
named the Count De Lundi, WAC passed
as uncle TO Sophia Adelaide. In his
charge and that Of Lzdy Anna, Sophia
Adelaide went 10 Itsly ard France, and
afterward, when about twelve years ole,
TO the Isle of B )ur9on, in the J7dian
OCeen. They soon removed to QGito,
IL South America, and
THENCE TO NEW ORLEANS,
the date being about 1854 The cholera
was making great rsvages, and they re-
moved for preCaution to Dayton, Ono,
where her protector, the Count De Lundi,
took cholera ana died. Before his death
he disclosed 20 Sophia ADELAIDE the mys-
terry OF her birth, and geye her q medallion
with portrait OF her mother, Queen
Victoria.
The deEth-5ed disclosures were made
in the presence and hearing OF Dr.. Brad
beck, the attending physician, aad Father
Hahn, or Hahnemann. the officiating
priest. In order to give Sophia- Adelaide
the protection OF his name, the Count &c
Lundi married her on his desth bed,
Father Hahn performing the ceremony.
few months later Lady Ann died, and
0phia-Adelside, now the widowed Coun-
tess q Ludwig, vas left alone in s strange
country, she then went to live in New
Orleans with the family Of Colonel
Pierce, whose acquaintance she had pre-
ViOUsly made. She Wss in receipt OF
HANDSOME PENSION FROM ENGLAND
Her father wrote, urging her 10 return
thItheT, but she YVES afraid Of being i'm
INJURED n 2 convent, and declined. and |
LETT New Orleans for Dayton, by the |
Mississippi steamer Rainbow, which, !
however, was burned on the trip, and |
sunk, about 100 lives being lost. Sophia |
AdelGine, though severely scalded by |.
steam, wss saved, but all her papers and |
trunks we're lost. she reached DAYTON, |
AMI sfterward, IN 1852 married an Amer |
ica2 physician Of Kentucky.
In 1861 her father died. Ii 1870 she !
Obtained . divorce from her husband and /
returned to Europa, travelling there for !
several years. All this time her pension |
had been regularly paid to her through |
the Rey. Edward Bouverie, of GOLDSMITH, !
EGglsnd. About 1876 it was suddenly
stopped.
She had become acquainted with John |
Brown, Queen VictOria's Highland SER
want, and appealed to him regarding her |
pension, and he sent her money on two or |
three occasions; bur he died in 1882, and |
she has since been without regular means |
OF support.
She states that she has appealed to her
royal connections for Justice and recog-
milton, but in vain, and she has now re-
turned TO America to appeal 10 public
opinion here to see if she cannot get JUS
tiCe in that way. she is now in New
York experimenting the publication of /
the story OF her life, which i>Eexpected 70
be out in few days. and TO create
sensation. She certainly bears most |
remarkable resemblance to q ieen Vic
toria, whom she claims to be her real
mother,
Ia regard 10 the shove csss the New
! Ork Times says: There Is d woman in
this city who cl1im5 to be the eldest
dSughter Of Victoria, Queen OF England.
She claims 10 have been defrsuded OF her
rights, aud . be the real Princess Vic
toria, formerly Princess Royal CT En-
gland, Eud now the wife OF the Crown
Prince Of G rmany. Her claims seem
naturally prep3sterous. Il Is, however,
said 10 De subStantiared to & drgree thst
makes it somewhat interesting. II il
should hsppen bY any strange chance
70 be true the scandal OF the century hiss
appeared.
A5ouo four months ago there came tc
this city from Paris 8 lady about forty
years q cga. As she appeared yesterday
she was sh3rt, to s degree that might De
termed squayty, With steel blue eyes, two
in number, heavy eyebrows, and 2 rather
heavy, somewhat coarsely nodded face.
Her ample cheek has down upon so had
Mrs Gaelph's. Her hands are white and
delicate. She dresses plainly, but we'll.
She bears 3 strong resemblance in face
and figure to that Queen OF England
whose dsugbter she claims to be The
prevalent portrait Of Queen Victoria
shows her with d white cap upon her head,
which partislly frames her face. When
CAROLINE P. GUELPH,
or whatever her real name IS, Grapes her
head il s white shawl, as she sometimes
does in way, the resem blsnce is remark
able. photograph of hers would be in
stanti- declared bY the average person TO
be the picture of q daughter of the Queen.
She does not depend greatly upon the re-
semblance, however. She Is very cool
and very serious in her claim, and relies
upon what she regards as facts.
Her story has several times come close
to publication. 1t would have been
csbled to New Y ork by 8 vigilant New
York correspondent in Paris some time
ago had she permitted. After her arrival
here she received a very substantial
offer for it from a publisher. She de-
clined publicity at that time, however, as
she was on the pension roll of the British |
government, according to her story, and
did not desire TO altogether destroy Whist i